Udhampur, Aug. 17 -- Mandeep Saini, a Punjab resident who recently visited Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir, has made an emotional appeal to the government to locate his wife and mother-in-law, who went missing in the devastating August 14 cloudburst in Chasoti that claimed at least 55 lives.

Saini had come to drop off his wife at her home in the Kishtwar district for Rakshabandhan, held on August 9. While he left for Punjab on the morning of August 12. Subsequently, his wife had gone for darshan to 'Machail Mata Mandir'. However, Saini got to know about the tragedy from his wife's brother-in-law.

"I had come here on Rakshabandhan to drop my wife off at her parents' home. I went back to Punjab on the morning of 12 August, around 7 am. Arou...